TORONTO, March 10 (Reuters) - Canada’s benchmark stock index ended barely higher on Friday, with sharp gains for gold miners offset by a slump in Toronto-Dominion Bank (TD) after CBC News reported that its employees were being pressured to meet high sales revenue goals.

Shares in TD, Canada’s No. 2 lender, closed down 5.6 percent at C$66.00, its biggest one-day decline since early 2009.

In an emailed response to Reuters regarding the CBC story, TD said, “The environment described in the media report is very much at odds with how we run our business, and we don’t recognize it from our own perspective, experience or assessments.”

“I don’t see a fundamental reason to be excited about the miners, or about gold itself, because anything that depends on a weaker U.S. dollar just doesn’t make sense to me with Donald Trump in the White House,” said Allan Small, senior investment advisor at HollisWealth.

The Toronto Stock Exchange’s S&P/TSX composite index closed up 9.84 points, or 0.06 percent, at 15,506.68. It lost 0.7 percent on the week.

Of the index’s 10 main groups, just financials and energy ended in negative territory, with advancers outnumbering decliners by more than 3 to 1.

The energy group slipped 0.1 percent, as oil prices slumped to close out the biggest three-day loss in a year.

Element Fleet Management Corp declined 7.6 percent to C$13.06 as several banks downgraded or trimmed their price targets on the company after it reported quarterly earnings. (Additional reporting by Alastair Sharp; Editing by Meredith Mazzilli, Toni Reinhold and James Dalgleish)